Cardiac calcification in adult hemodialysis patients: A link between end-stage renal disease and cardiovascular disease?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 695-701

  Raggi, Paolo ^a   Boulay, Amy ^b   Chasan Taber, Scott ^c   Amin, Naseem ^b   Dillon, Maureen ^b   Burke, Steven K ^b   Chertow, Glenn M ^d,e  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GENZYME CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Boston Biostatistics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLAUDICATION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINERAL METABOLISM; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037138580     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01781-8     Document Type: Article

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